= Cowboy
Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.
== Goals
Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base.
It is optimized for low latency and low memory usage, in part
because it uses binary strings.
Cowboy provides routing capabilities, selectively dispatching requests
to handlers written in Erlang.
Because it uses Ranch for managing connections, Cowboy can easily be
embedded in any other application.
Cowboy is clean and well tested Erlang code.
== Online documentation
== Offline documentation
- While still online, run
make docs
- User guide available in
doc/ in PDF and HTML formats
- Function reference man pages available in
doc/man3/ and doc/man7/
- Run
make install-docs to install man pages on your system
- Full documentation in Asciidoc available in
doc/src/